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Anyone who knows anything about science-fiction knows the following speech, probably on sight:I am leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group anywhere…Continue

http://www.scifireaders.net/a very good blog about Science Fictionhere is an except from the website: Aboutb&wWell, what is SciFi Readers? And who am I? I started this blog in April of 2011 because…Continue

Hey, godless fans of fantasy and sci-fi! I want to let you all to know that my edgy new YA fantasy was launched at the Brattleboro (Vermont) Literary Festival last week before a healthy crowd of book-lovers. This one is bound to create a stir--as…Continue

Arwen's Journey: A Tale of Middle Earth by Gwaithmir (writing as Karlmir Stonewain) Summary: During the decade following the War of the Ring, King Elessar and Queen Undómiel work tirelessly to reunify the kingdom and institute governmental reforms.…Continue

Burroughs wrote the original Tarzan books. The God's of Mars is the second in a series. It is a beautiful metaphor for religious absurdity. Not to give too much away, but Mars is depicted as a planet with multiple races, each having its own…Continue

My first exposure to Richard Matheson was probably back in the early 60s, and that marvelous anthology series, Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Matheson told amazing stories … of a man recovering from a nervous breakdown and what he thought he saw…Continue

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Did you check out my book yet, The Last Blade of Grass? I think you'll find my publisher did a great job in editing and there are not those little distracting mistakes that you mentioned are in some peoples books.

And today, following sci-fi, we now have cli-fi fiction--a sub-genre comprising stories that base their themes on the implications of our changing climate. There's been a good deal of attention in the popular media given to this new category over the last year or two.

"Meet author Don Bredes, whose debut novel Hard Feelings was named Best Book of the Year for Young Adults by the American Library Association. Bredes is back with another YA novel, Polly and the One and Only World, a fantasy apocalyptic novel ushering in a vision of a future world that is not so impossible to believe. In the book, a young heroine named Polly Lightfoot tries to survive results of climate change: rising seas, coastal floods, drought, and social upheaval."

Yay! My edgy new fantasy (in which the villains are fundamentalists and the heroes witches), POLLY AND THE ONE AND ONLY WORLD, has been selected as a YA finalist for the 2014 Indiefab Book of the Year Awards. The winners will be announced in June at the ALA annual convention in San Francisco.

The term "sci-fi"

Forrest J Ackerman used the term sci-fi (analogous to the then-trendy "hi-fi") at UCLA in 1954.[44] As science fiction entered popular culture, writers and fans active in the field came to associate the term with low-budget, low-tech "B-movies" and with low-quality pulp science fiction.[45][46][47] By the 1970s, critics within the field such as Terry Carr and Damon Knight were using sci-fi to distinguish hack-work from serious science fiction,[48] and around 1978, Susan Wood and others introduced the pronunciation "skiffy." Peter Nicholls writes that "SF" (or "sf") is "the preferred abbreviation within the community of sf writers and readers."[49]David Langford's monthly fanzine Ansible includes a regular section "As Others See Us" which offers numerous examples of "sci-fi" being used in a pejorative sense by people outside the genre.[50]

If you're into this genre I think you'll enjoy it. I like Apocalypse and zombie stories but as a skeptic want something believable and based on real scientific possibilities. My zombies aren't the risen dead.

Sorry for the self-Promo but if you're into Post Apocalyptic stories and zombies, my first book was just published by Severed Press, The Last Blade of Grass. My main character and his family are Atheists of course. Not a book about religion but there are several back and forth's on religion he engages in throughout the book.

Today's review: This book was gripping, believable, well thought out and engaging. I particularly loved the interplay between the main character and his wife. Well worth the read. I can't wait to read more!